Dark Botanical Portrait
Photography · Botanical · Portrait
Recipe
GPT Image
Full sentences. Describe the scene, then the medium, then the flaws you want kept in.
The recipe is the style, not the picture. Put your own subject in and the prompt updates.
A portrait of a person with their eyes closed, half buried in dense dark green foliage with small orange berries, leaves crossing in front of the face. Lit by a single soft source from the upper left so nine tenths of the frame falls to near black, deep desaturated colour, no highlights beyond the skin and two or three leaves. Utterly still, painterly in the manner of a Dutch still life, shot on medium format.
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Recommended settings
- Size
- 1365 x 1024
- Quality
- High
- Background
- Opaque
- Output
- PNG
Tips
- 1Let most of the frame go to black. Lifting the shadows loses the whole mood.
- 2Leaves crossing in front of the face is the compositional idea.
- 3Closed or lowered eyes keep it still rather than confrontational.
Things to try
Flowers instead
pale blooms rather than leaves against the dark
Hands
hands holding foliage rather than a face
Water
the same lighting with the subject partly submerged
Autumn
copper and rust foliage in place of green
Full black
only the skin lit, everything else lost
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